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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Contentment with what I have.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2013 source ↗
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Clarity when I am writing.
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To relax without being bothered.
Waking up in the morning is as perfect as anything gets.
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